watchkalibrun.com - 7/3/2009
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One of the most popular points of speculation within the MMA community deals with how much mainstream media coverage will UFC 100 will receive? UFC officials and fans think that this event will be the biggest MMA story of 2009 --though many MMA media members think it will ...
Mixed Martial Arts and the UFC Doing Well, Still Not in Major Leagues
bloodyelbow.com 6/26/2009 — The echo chamber in the hardcore community is a powerful banshee, but some mainstream wax for your ears will do your perspective some good. Steve Sievert makes an important point: the UFC's business is improving in a time when larger, traditional ...
UFC 100 Aftermath: MMA Media vs the Mainstream Media
bloodyelbow.com 7/13/2009 — Our own Michael Rome has already said his piece and I couldn't agree more. But I thought I'd add two more nuggets from some of my other favorite members of the MMA blogosphere.
First Steve Cofield takes the L.A. Times' T.J. Simers to the woodshed ...
Will the UFC's new magazine start a fight with MMA magazines?
watchkalibrun.com 6/30/2009 — MMA Payout asks the question,
With the UFC entering the market, do the MMA print mags get the Sherdog treatment, with credentialing and photo usage being pulled, now that they are ostensibly competing? Or do they get MMAWeekly'd, with some degree of reasonable access being given? I'd ...
Two MMA video games? Over the UFC's dead body
watchkalibrun.com 7/1/2009 —
When Electronic Arts announced that they were developing an MMA game many mixed martial arts fans were left scratching their collective heads.
Didn't THQ already own the UFC license? Would EA's game be connected with a major promotion, surely none of the UFC's ...
Favorite UFC memories from your favorite MMA bloggers
sports.yahoo.com 7/8/2009 — Yesterday, Kevin Iole shared some UFC memories from MMA luminaries -- Dana White, Lorenzo Fertitta, Georges St. Pierre, the list goes on. He also included memories from fans. (You really should go read the whole thing.) Today, Cagewriter brings you ...
Dana says ‘My Way or the Highway’
blog.thesavagescience.com 6/27/2009 — …and there was much rejoicing.
There will be no Limp Bizkit performance at UFC 100. Via MMA Junkie:
Rap-metal group Limp Bizkit’s previously announced July 10 performance at Mandalay Bay Casino & Resort has been canceled.
Ticketmaster.com was the first to announce the ...
MMA Bloggers, Unite!
watchkalibrun.com 6/18/2009 —
(Do you hear the bloggers sing! Singing the song of Angry Men!)
Much has been made of Dana White's rant against Loretta Hunt. The questions of journalistic responsibilities and ethical business practices have been discussed ad nauseam. That didn't stop Charles Jay from penning an MMA ...
MMA’s Mainstream Current
sherdog.com 6/26/2009 — BloodyElbow’s Luke Thomas has circulated a food-for-thought editorial musing on the UFC’s status among the “mainstream” sports of the era. Written as a kind of counterpoint to a Steve Sievert piece on Yahoo trumpeting the UFC’s success compared to ...
How Long Will UFC 100 Be the High Water Mark for MMA in the U.S.A.?
bloodyelbow.com 7/15/2009 — There's a strange consensus emerging that UFC 100 marks a plateau in the UFC's popularity that will last a while. When I see agreement between writers for Sherdog and FightOpinion and crusty old columnists from outlets like CBS News, the Washington ...
UFC 100 Reviews are in and they are bad, wait what?
watchkalibrun.com 7/13/2009 —
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UFC 100 was suppose to be a celebration of the UFC and mixed martial arts. Yet for whatever reason some media members, both mainstream and MMA, were left underwhelmed.
Tom Casale ...
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